A HISTORY OF LANCASHIRE 



school. After his death (January, 1566) zparva 

 flu/o belonging to the chantry priest of St. Mary's 

 altar, on the west side of the churchyard, now 

 taken down, was used for the schoolhouse till 

 1693, when a new school was erected on a site 

 in North Parade given by Robert Parker of 

 Entwisle. In 1872 the school was again rebuilt. 

 Gifts were made to the school in 1 5 58 by 

 Richard Woodru£Fe and John Ingham ; a farm 

 in Yorkshire was bequeathed by the Rev. Gates 

 Sagar before the close of the sixteenth century. 

 In the seventeenth century the brothers Towne- 

 ley were benefactors. In 1862 the income was 

 _^"276. The school had a claim to Dean 

 Nowell's exhibitions at Brasenose College, 

 Oxford, ' now lapsed. The school possesses a 

 valuable library, the bequest of the Rev. Henry 

 HaLted, rector of Stansfield in Suffolk, probably 

 a former pupil, by his will dated 5 August, 

 1728. At the present time the school is in 

 course of being ' municipalized' by a scheme of 

 the Board of Education. 



URSWICK GRAMMAR SCHOOL ^ 

 (near Ulverston) 



Urswick Grammar School was founded by 

 William Marshall of Lambeth, of the ancient 

 family of Marshall, by his will dated 15 July, 

 1579, and proved 20 January, 1579-80. 



I geve to the saide Christofer Mershall the 

 occupacion of my personage of Bleubery in the 

 countie of Berk for the terme of five yeres next after 

 my decease and payenge yearelie duringe the saidc 

 tcarme tenne poundes to Edmond Sargeant And 

 after thende of the saide tearme of fyve years I will 

 thoccupacion of the saide personage to the same 

 Christofer Mershall for the terme of tenne yeres more 

 payenge yearelie to my sisters Margarett and Agnes 

 £10 to eyther of them The reasidue of the proffitts 

 of the saide personage to be ymployed towardes the 

 makinge findinge and erectinge of a freescole eyther 

 in Little Urswicke in the countie of Lancaster or in 

 Morchehadm aforesaid at his discreation with the 

 consent of the said nowe Archebisshoppe of Canter- 

 burye and of my Supervisors hereafter in this will 

 mencioned, the stipende of the Scholemaster to be 

 yerelie fiftene poundes, as also of three scollershipps 

 in the uniuersitie of Cambridge, that is to saye 

 Pembroke Hall, Clarehall and Jesue Colledge to 

 everj'c of them fyue markes yerelie for ever The 

 maintenance of the saide scole and the schollershipps 

 to be also taken out of the yssues and proffitts of all 

 that moyetie of the manor of Brantingthorp in the 

 countie of Leicester which I latelie purchased in the 

 saide Christofer's name to the use afore expressed 

 and the saide ScoUershippes to be for Lancashire 



' See su/ira, 576-7, 604. 



' Baines, Hisl. of Lanes, iv, 654 ; will and letters 

 patent in the possession of the school authorities. 



Cumberland, Hertfordshier, and Essex, and that those 

 scollers shalbe alwayes admitted to the saide Scoller- 

 shipps which shall come out of thaforeproposed scole 

 yf they be apte thereto. 



Letters patent were granted six years later by 

 Queen Elizabeth for a grammar school in the 

 parish for the education, institution, and instruction 

 of boys and youths, to be called the Free Gram- 

 mar School of Queen Elizabeth of the foundation 

 of William Marshall. 



The vicars of Urswick seem generally to have 

 acted as masters of the grammar school. Apart 

 from this fact little or nothing is known of the 

 early history of the school ; no records or 

 registers were kept until its re-organization 

 under the Charity Commissioners about sixty 

 years ago, when the school became a public 

 elementary school, though it retains the old 

 title of Urswick Grammar School. 



HAWKSHEAD GRAMMAR SCHOOL ' 



This school was founded by Edwin Sandys, 

 archbishop of York and a native of the parish, 

 under letters patent 10 April, 1585, as the 

 Free Grammar School of Edwin, archbishop of 

 York. The master's salary was originally £^7.0 

 and the usher's ^^3 ds. Sd. The endowment 

 consisted of a house and land for the master in 

 Hawkshead and of lands and houses near Wake- 

 field and Doncaster, and some ground-rents near 

 Kendal. A suit in Chancery begun in 1832 

 for the recovery of some property at Hawkshead 

 came to a successful issue in 1835, and on 6 July, 

 1838, a new scheme approved by the Master of 

 the Rolls was established. In 1863 the Charity 

 Commissioners divided the school into the gram- 

 mar or upper school and the English or lower 

 school, the latter to be carried on in the National 

 School in course of erection. In 1 89 1 the 

 endowment of the lower school was severed 

 by a further scheme of the Commissioners. The 

 poet Wordsworth and Lord Brougham, with 

 other eminent men, received their early training 

 at the school. There are now six boys in at- 

 tendance. 



The school possesses a library consisting of 

 books given by the will (19 August, 1 7 19) of the 

 Rev. Thomas Sandys, together with others pur- 

 chased with the interest of a bequest of ^1,000 

 made by him, and with gifts by Daniel Rawlinson 

 (21 June, 1669) and William Wilson (18 17). 



HALSALL ENDOWED SCHOOL 

 Edward Halsall, in 1593, gave a rent-charge 

 °^ £^3 6^. 8d. on his estate at Ecclcston for the 

 maintenance of a free grammar school at Halsall. 

 The school building was erected in the church- 

 yard, to the south-west of the church, and is still 



' Baines, Hiit. 0/ Lanes, iv, 706 ; School docu- 

 ments. 



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